Wave famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
-- Abigail Spencer -
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
-- Adam Braun -
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
-- Alain de Botton -
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
-- Alan Watts -
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Jose was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.
-- Alex Ferguson -
When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.
-- Alia Shawkat -
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
-- Alison Moyet -
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
-- Amy Carmichael -
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
-- Anais Nin -
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
-- Andre Maurois -
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.
-- Andy Greenwald -
If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
-- Antony Beevor -
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
-- Bill Gaede -
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
-- Brad Carson -
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.
-- Buzzy Trent -
A Big Wave is like a Beautiful Woman.....exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.
-- Buzzy Trent -
In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
-- Carlos Slim -
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
-- Charles Churchill -
Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.
-- Chica Umino -
There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave
-- Christian Slater -
I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.
-- Christy Carlson Romano -
As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
-- Claude Nicollier -
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.
-- Corinne Heline -
I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.
-- Courteney Cox -
Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
-- Dan Millman -
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
-- Dave Mustaine -
Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.
-- Don Williams -
Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
-- Duke Kahanamoku -
Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
-- Eddie Vedder -
Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!
-- Edmund Clarence Stedman -
The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,
-- Elaine Chao -
Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.
-- Elif Safak -
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.
-- Eric Butterworth -
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
-- Ernst Junger -
I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.
-- Ethan Hawke -
My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.
-- Eva Green -
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
-- Fanny Crosby -
Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life
-- Gerry Lopez -
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
-- Grace Paley -
Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.
-- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda -
Wave it high, and don't trip and fall.
-- Hayley Wickenheiser -
At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took....
-- Heather McHugh -
Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.
-- Henry Abbey -
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Out of His fullness we receive, and grace for grace, - like wave upon wave.
-- Horatius Bonar -
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
-- Jane Pauley -
Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
-- Janet Morris -
I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.
-- Jason Mraz -
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
-- Jean Cocteau -
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
-- Jennifer Ehle -
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
-- Jerry Saltz -
Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.
-- Johannes Stark -
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
-- John Doerr -
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.
-- John L. Casti -
You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
-- John Wanamaker -
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
-- Joshua Slocum -
Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.
-- Julianne MacLean -
I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.
-- Kelly Slater -
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.
-- Kenneth C. Griffin -
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
-- Kitty Carlisle -
A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
-- Laini Taylor -
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.
-- Lisa Scottoline -
It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
-- Little Richard -
Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
-- Liz Phair -
Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?
-- Lord Byron -
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
-- Lorenzo di Bonaventura -
As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.
-- Louise Mushikiwabo -
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!
-- Lydia M. Child -
I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
-- Lynda Barry -
Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.
-- Lynne McTaggart
